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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I really like how Baccano ties everything together in the last episode (not counting the oavs).

    In the books, each of the years covered in the show was a separate book. So the train book set in 1931 came out after Firo's meeting with Ennis is 1930.
    With the show jumping back and forth between the different stories, we're told that there is an unknown immortal on the train in 1931. Then in the final episode that immortal is revealed to be Isaac when he rescues Czeslaw. Then the show jumps back to 1930 and shows us how that happened.

    Whereas with the books, the 1930 book came out first so you already knew Isaac and Miria were immortal (even if they themselves don't realize it for over 70 years).

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    I really like how Baccano ties everything together in the last episode (not counting the oavs).

    In the books, each of the years covered in the show was a separate book. So the train book set in 1931 came out after Firo's meeting with Ennis is 1930.
    With the show jumping back and forth between the different stories, we're told that there is an unknown immortal on the train in 1931. Then in the final episode that immortal is revealed to be Isaac when he rescues Czeslaw. Then the show jumps back to 1930 and shows us how that happened.

    Whereas with the books, the 1930 book came out first so you already knew Isaac and Miria were immortal (even if they themselves don't realize it for over 70 years).

    I wish a second season would happen. I haven't read the books so I don't know which following years one should mash up but
    Both the time that Ladd and Jacuzzi team up with Huey to break out of Alcatraz, and the early Aughts immortal reunion cruise that gets hijacked by terrorists sound incredible to me.

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  • FlamuFlamu 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Aw I liked Rent-a-Girlfriend and its straightforward sitcom antics. Disappointed to hear it spins its wheels so long after the anime, but not surprised.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Also during AniMenagerie's watching of Baccano, I was surprised there were some who disagreed when I said people should all strive to have a girlfriend who is willing to give you the homemade bomb she keeps hidden in her eye socket.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Arcane is way better than it has any right to be as a show based on League

    true but the monkey's paw is that it certainly got a non zero amount of people to try league

    my SO was like "should I get League" and I turned and looked at her and just started muttering "no no no" over and over

    As someone who plays a lot of league.

    Don't play league.

    who hurt you

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    oh I meant to post something else but also I wanted to post in this thread that I'm watching Dougram

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Arcane is way better than it has any right to be as a show based on League

    true but the monkey's paw is that it certainly got a non zero amount of people to try league

    my SO was like "should I get League" and I turned and looked at her and just started muttering "no no no" over and over

    As someone who plays a lot of league.

    Don't play league.

    who hurt you

    Munkus hurt Munkus, in this case

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Arcane is way better than it has any right to be as a show based on League

    true but the monkey's paw is that it certainly got a non zero amount of people to try league

    my SO was like "should I get League" and I turned and looked at her and just started muttering "no no no" over and over

    As someone who plays a lot of league.

    Don't play league.

    who hurt you

    probably teemo

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    teemo has never done a single thing wrong to anyone

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I only quickly skipped through Orient, Leadale, and Police in a Pod, but they all certainly seemed to be as awful as they appeared to be on the tin.

    Tokyo 24th Ward was maybe more okay though. Was a double length first episode. It certainly took a turn at the halfway point. Basically anime teenager Early Edition, if the newspaper was your dead teenage friend/sister who was now an AI I guess, who also gave you super powers to save the people in the visions of tragedy. Very akin to a GoHands show in that the cast is huge and everybody is a silly cariacature, but takes itself less seriously and the production is less filled with the excessive glow and CGI. Not as well animated either though, but that may be more because the direction was also super weird with way too much effort going into random unimportant scenes, and very little going into important ones. It at least had a story and a hook, which is more than can be said for the other three.

    I mean, it wasn't GOOD either, but it was at least within spitting distance of being amusingly unhinged.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oghulk wrote: »
    dorohedoro is pure vibe

    and also unsettling. everything feels like it doesn't belong, from the characters to the background to the animation

    it is weirdly unsettling

    It's so odd but I love it. Kinda reminds me of Cromartie High School during times when they just go for gags

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Me and my roommate started Blue Period, it took me a full 3 episodes to get that best girl is actually a crossdresser

    Pretty good so far, wish the animation was a touch more ambitious but it is what it is

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I haven't watched yet but I was looking forward to Orient; what's wrong with it?

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I haven't watched yet but I was looking forward to Orient; what's wrong with it?

    Poorly animated. Badly directed action scene (singular) that was mostly a cut away to a dude standing nearby taking most of a minute to explain how the one pickax swing was actually a sword drawing technique. A third of the dialogue is the protagonists yelling "BUT OUR DREAMS."

    Just low end shounen, basically.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hmm, doesn't seem like it's a great season. I've got Dress-Up Darling and Akebi-chan on my list, just because I enjoy the manga, and I might continue with Takagi-san S3. Otherwise I'm just glad Ousama Ranking is still ongoing.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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    If you know if you know

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Current chapter Nagatoro
    I really like the characters in this but this chapter has Nagatoro in the shower and there's panels of just her ass. Can we please not do this?? It's to be expected but still annoying every time.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Current chapter Nagatoro
    I really like the characters in this but this chapter has Nagatoro in the shower and there's panels of just her ass. Can we please not do this?? It's to be expected but still annoying every time.

    the anime and manga both do this with the president too and it's very uncomfortable for several reasons

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I feel like the only two posts about Nagotoro are that it's not as bad as it first seems and gets really cute once you get past the bad parts, and that the latest chapter is again uncomfortable and bad.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It'll go a good 10-15 chapters without it and then bam, fan service. It would be so much better without it.

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Nagatoro is all about being an awkward teens wildest fantasy. So... par for the course

    (It's like an isekai power fantasy)

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    I feel like the only two posts about Nagotoro are that it's not as bad as it first seems and gets really cute once you get past the bad parts, and that the latest chapter is again uncomfortable and bad.

    Nagatoro starts put more cruel than anything, but gets much more cute and ribbing. The author unfortunately confuses writing teens as being horny with the audience being horny for teens

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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    If you know if you know

    Anyone know what the reaction has been like in Japan? For English speakers, I heard both the discord and the reddit had to just shut down for a while.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Meanwhile in the latest chapter of the extremely wholesome Komi-San

    Actual spoiler if you haven't caught up/anime only
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    I got diabetes from this

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Meanwhile in the latest chapter of the extremely wholesome Komi-San

    Actual spoiler if you haven't caught up/anime only
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    I got diabetes from this

    I thought that bit of dialog should have been
    It made me fall for you all over again
    rather than
    it made me fall over for you again
    which just feels like she dropped a banana skin and he deliberately tripped on it or something

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    My brain literally corrected it to how you typed it lol

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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    If you know if you know

    For those of us not in the know, can we get some context? Especially on how this image is linked to a discord shutting down???

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think it's in relation to the Rent a Girlfriend manga doing a really dumb thing

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    MC is revealed to be the Loch Ness Monster, gotcha.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The manga author decided to make a porn chapter and now people are memeing on the MC floating in a pool getting a boner to weird fantasies

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I finished the hockey girls anime today. They really front-loaded all the weird embroidery and idol content. And I continue to believe that the performances take place entirely inside their coach's head, since they dance on ice, sing without mics and wear unique costumes each time. That's on top of how impossible it would be to train them as Canada-destroying players and idols at the same time. It makes way more sense if you just imagine them doing a goofy little cheer/dance after the game.

    But it was pretty good, as far as a 'cute girls doing cute sports' show goes.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I finished the hockey girls anime today. They really front-loaded all the weird embroidery and idol content. And I continue to believe that the performances take place entirely inside their coach's head, since they dance on ice, sing without mics and wear unique costumes each time. That's on top of how impossible it would be to train them as Canada-destroying players and idols at the same time. It makes way more sense if you just imagine them doing a goofy little cheer/dance after the game.

    But it was pretty good, as far as a 'cute girls doing cute sports' show goes.

    Consider large parts of idol training actually break them down as human beings similar to how military training does it and I'm going to have to disagree. Idol training is probably exactly how I'd train a bunch of ice murderers.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I was thinking more about how much time training for either would take, much less both.

    I also watched the first episodes of Land of Leadale and Police in a Pod. Leadale seems like it could be fun, it's combining a few isekai tropes in an interesting way. It was relaxing and cute in a way I'd hoped that slime killing witch show would be, before actually watching it and being disappointed.

    Police in a Pod is basically a Hot Fuzz style buddy cop show where the cool former detective is stuck in a quiet part of town handing out speeding tickets and giving safety lessens to little kids. Also her partner hates cops and hates being a cop, but loves the steady pay and benefits. And thinks the former detective is really hot. Apparently there was a live action version, so I think I'm going to check that out as well, as those are always fun.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps9-QlciTrU

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I guess the VRV thing makes more sense now

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
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    If you know if you know

    Anyone know what the reaction has been like in Japan? For English speakers, I heard both the discord and the reddit had to just shut down for a while.

    Not really. Its hard to find anything with everyone memeing on it

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oghulk wrote: »
    dorohedoro is pure vibe

    and also unsettling. everything feels like it doesn't belong, from the characters to the background to the animation

    it is weirdly unsettling

    i described it as "Dorohedoro is the author pulling a pile of increasingly disturbing yet oddly endearing rugs from underneath the audience."

    And I stand by that statement.

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